I have a 2-year old Acer laptop that started doing the same thing 
somewhere around 4.99.34 or .35.  Worked fine with earlier -current.

For now I've just disabled acpibat in my config.  :(

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Pavel Jirout wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> after todays update of userland and kernel (GENERIC i386) I get these console messages
> Im using an IBM Thinkpad X24 (sorry, its old)
>
> acpiecdt0: command takes over 5sec...
> ACPI Exception (evregion-0529): AE_ERROR, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20070320]
> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.GBIF] (Node 0xc1902080), AE_ERROR
> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.BAT0._BIF] (Node 0xc1903f40), AE_ERROR
> acpibat0: failed to evaluate _BIF: AE_ERROR
> acpibat0: battery info: , ,  11050
> ACPI Exception (evregion-0529): AE_ERROR, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20070320]
> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.GBST] (Node 0xc1902060), AE_ERROR
> ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.BAT0._BST] (Node 0xc1903f20), AE_ERROR
> acpibat0: failed to evaluate _BST: AE_ERROR
> acpiecdt0: command takes over 5sec...
>

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